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exceed 3s. Cd. each, lor the standard or f^rove trees, and from 

 Is. to 2s. per stool, for the luulcrwood. 



The rates thus specified for woods of all sorts, are given 

 with great care, as the result of many years' experience. If 

 planters could be persuaded to confine themselves, at least 

 in their earlier essays, to subjects of moderate dimensions, 

 such as are from five-and-twenty to thirty feet in height, 

 but of some stoutness, that is, from a foot to fourteen inches 

 in diameter (and these are quite sufficient for Immediate 

 Effect, and picturesque beauty,) they might confidently rely 

 on the power of the art amply to gratify their wishes, at a 

 very moderate cost. It is the ambition of undertakings, 

 beyond the accomplishment of any man without extraordi- 

 nary skill, and without machinery far surpassing in magni- 

 tude and expense what is generally constructed, that misleads 

 and discourages many, and prevents those habits of accurate 

 observation, and patient industry, without which no art use- 

 ful or ornamental ever yet was carried to any degree of 

 excellence. 



I will now proceed to give a few examples of work exe- 

 cuted solely by day-labour, which, on an estimate of time, 

 are also susceptible of an intelligible result. Of effects both 

 rapidly and cheaply produced, and likewise on a scale of 

 some extent, it would not be easy to give better instances, 

 than what are to be found at this place. To state facts, not 

 to excite wonder, is the sole object of the following short 

 detail ; and in truth, both the time and the manner, in which 

 the objects in question have been accomplished, are so well 

 known to many persons, that all disguise or concealment on 

 my part were impossible, had I any wish to practise arts so 

 disingenuous. 



On turning to the Frontispiece, the reader will perceive, 

 that, in this view of the Park, considerable woody effects 

 have been realized, and that they are very favourably seen, 

 with water as a foreground. Between the years 1816 and 



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